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Compare proxy vs decorator pattern in C# with side-by-side code examples, structural similarities, intent differences, and guidance on when to use each. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/05/21/proxy-vs-decorator-pattern-in-c-key-differences-explained
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Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how software gets built, Kotlin’s growing real-world impact reflects the …
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Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as something that has to be reviewed, approved, and then frozen in …
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Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code. IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer works there every day. Some prefer VS Code, or already have it as part of their …
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Introduction When multiple engineers on a team use AI coding tools independently — without shared context about the project's architecture or conventions — the output quality is inconsistent. One developer gets a well-structured endpoint; another gets generic boilerplate that needs to be rewritten. The AI is capable, …
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Making software accessible often comes down to removing small but repeated points of friction in everyday workflows. Today, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing recent improvements in JetBrains IDEs across several areas: compatibility with assistive technologies on various platforms, keyboard …
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Your system has 500 users and also has 20 microservices, including the gauntlet of Kubernetes, a message broker, distributed tracing, multiple different databases, and a pretty dashboard that probably nobody looks at. Someone will ask the question: why is this so complicated for 500 users? And usually the answer is, …
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Learn to use PropertyInfo and MethodInfo in C# to read and write properties, invoke methods, and inspect types at runtime with practical .NET 10 examples. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/05/20/propertyinfo-and-methodinfo-in-c-the-practical-developers-guide
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PowerShell is a critical automation and configuration platform across enterprises—and as that automation grows, how you source, validate, and distribute PowerShell packages becomes just as important as the scripts themselves. Modern security guidance increasingly treats package feeds as part of the software supply Link …
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Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Developers describe working in Kotlin in a fairly consistent way: more time spent …
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If you’re building visual shopping, image or document understanding, or chart analysis, you need a way to verify whether your model’s response is actually grounded in the source image. A text-only evaluator cannot tell you whether a caption faithfully describes an image, whether an extracted invoice total matches the …
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Babu Annamalai and I have been working very hard on JasperFx Software‘s officially curated AI Skills for the “Critter Stack,” and I’m very pleased to announce today that these skills are officially open for business! Many of our support clients already have access, but as of today anyone interested is able to purchase …
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Voice agents, live captioning, contact center analytics, and accessibility tools all depend on real-time speech-to-text, where your application streams audio in and receives transcription back simultaneously over a single persistent connection. Traditional request-response inference falls short here because …
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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.121 Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.121
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Teams often treat developer experience as work that competes with shipping the product. That is understandable, but it is also backwards. The local loop, setup, debugging, repeatable operations, and agent workflows are part of how the product gets shipped. When those things are slow or unclear, every feature pays the …
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Introduction Upgrading .NET Lambda functions is manual, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially when managing hundreds of functions across multiple repositories. Each upgrade requires updating .csproj target framework files (the C# project configuration that specifies which .NET version to target), bumping NuGet …
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Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system prompt, or a hand-rolled allowlist. Neither is deterministic. Both fail silently the day someone slips a [SYSTEM OVERRIDE] line into an issue body, Link to …
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Master the template method design pattern in C# with practical examples showing inheritance-based algorithm customization and real-world .NET implementations. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/05/20/template-method-design-pattern-in-c-complete-guide-with-examples
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As is often the case with Go, the standard library comes with a great tool for profiling your programs – pprof. It samples your call stack, allowing you to later generate reports that help you analyze and visualize your software’s performance without installing any plugins. Everything you need is in the Go development …
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Starting with v2026.1.2, CLion includes the SARIFThe Static Analysis Results Interchange Format. Viewer, available out of the box. This is especially useful for embedded and automotive teams, for whom external static analysis is often part of the compliance toolchain. If you use tools that produce SARIF reports – such …
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